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Copy the zip archive perl-support.zip to $HOME/.vim/ or $VIM/vimfiles
(on the Windows platforms) and run
unzip perl-support.zip
If you have already an older version of perl-support and you have modified the
template files you may want to save your templates first or copy the files from the
archive by hand. See also the README file within the zip file.

- Plugin loads faster: loading the templates is delayed until the first use.
- Plugin now works with pathogen.vim.
- Menus will always be generated (for the use with :emenu).
- Bugfix: no local templates available with a system-wide installation (thanks to Iain Arnell).
- Minor improvements.

- Perl::Critic integration: severity and verbosity will be taken from the
configuration file if specified.
- Bugfix (Windows only): wrong quoting with command line parameters.
- Several minor improvements.

- Run make (+arguments) from the 'Run' menu; 2 additional hotkeys.
- Bugfix (Windows): syntax check does not catch error message if a closing
brace is missing (thanks to Dave DelGreco for fixing this bug).

+ Completely new template system. Most menu items now user definable.
+ Plugin split into autoloadable modules (makes Vim startup faster).
+ Submenus for perlcritic severity and verbosity.
In consequence there are some obsolete files and global variables, and some new
files and hotkeys.

+ Snippets can now be managed in the console mode.
+ Three new key mappings for snippets.
+ Bugfix: quitting the module list buffer no longer terminates the editor.
+ Documentation: section about optional dependencies added.

+ One new and two improved mappings (\cs, \co, \cc).
+ All command mappings can be switched off by a global variable.
+ Bugfix: empty new file after removing the header template can't be closed.
+ Bugfix [Windows]: perlcritic messages are sometimes garbled (Thanks to Igor Prischepoff).
+ Bugfix : Tools entry missing when root menu not shown from the start.

+ Bugfix: wrong position when building regular expressions in visual mode at the end of a line.
+ Bugfix [cygwin]: unnecessary error message when starting vim not gvim).
+ Perl keyword help (S-F1) improved.
+ Insertion and substitution from the menus protected against non-plugin mappings.

+ New command and menu entry for commenting/uncommenting larger blocks of code.
+ Some POD statements now have a visual mode.
+ Setting the column for the start of line-end comments improved.
+ Mac OS X : circumvent a Vim bug which caused a crash when loading plugin version 3.1.
+ File syntax/perl.vim removed (but see help in perlsupport.txt).

+ New menu entry for setting perl command line switches (Thanks to Adam MacKinnon).
+ For files with extension 't' (Perl test files) the filetype is set to 'perl'. This
allows syntax checking, reading help, and checking with perlcritic.
+ There is a new comment template file 'perl-test-header' which will be
inserted at the beginning of a new test file (extension 't').
+ Comment after some POD directives removed (podchecker showed errors).

+ Podchecker integrated. Runs like a compiler. Opens a quickfix error window.
+ Script will be made executable before running it (e.g. after a "Save As...").
+ Many blanks in 2 POD templates removes which garbled the resulting documents (bugfix).
+ Message now visible if SmallProf is not runable (bugfix).

+ blocks: opening brace no longer on a new line (adjustable for backward compatibility).
+ Vim (without GUI): new key mappings: all entries in the run menu do have mappings now.
+ Vim (without GUI): perldoc can be read with hotkeys \h and \rp .
+ Vim (without GUI): perldoc displays docs using plain text converter.+ output into buffer: cursor goes to top of file.
+ trailing ^M in perldoc window will be removed (UNIX/Linux).
+ output into buffer: cursor goes to top of file.

+ Windows support. Most features are now available under Windows.
+ Spaces in path and file names are now possible (Windows and UNIX).
+ Reading documentation with perldoc improved.
+ Minor bugs fixed and improvements.

+ Run the profiler SmallProf from the menu; save different results with time stamps.
+ Line end comments start in a fixed column now (can be set from the menu).
+ Recommended settings for ctags corrected (Thanks to William McKee).
+ Perl module list generator pmdesc3 again slightly improved.

+ One of three debuggers can be started with the hotkey F9.+ Complete file or marked area can be reformatted with perltidy. + Run a perl-script: (1) The script can be run from the command line. (2) The output can be directed into a window with name "Perl-Output". (3) The script can be run in an xterm (adjustable).+ The new hotkey Shift-F9 and the menu entry "cmd. line arg." set command line arguments for the current buffer.+ A code snippet with the file name extension "ni" or "noindent" will not be indented on insertion.+ Bug fixed (POD->Text)

+ Perl module list generator pmdesc3 improved (no double entries, no control
characters in version numbers, handles DOS-teminated files correctly).
+ Looking up help with Shift-F1 now works also in the perldoc help buffer.
+ Running a Perl-script now opens a window with name "Perl-Output" to display
the script output. The buffer and its content will disappear when closing
the window.

+ There is now at most one help window/buffer.+ There is now at most one Perl module list window/buffer.+ The perldoc help will now search in FAQs too; search order : modules - functions - FAQs. + Template files and snippet files are no longer kept in the list of alternate files.+ A bug fixed in the Perl module list generator pmdesc3.

+ Installation simplified. + The generation of the module list is a magnitude faster.+ The version of a module is now shown in the module list. + The perl documentation (pod::perl*) appears in the module list.+ The dialog windows (GUI) have been replaced by more flexible command line inputs.+ User will now be asked before a snippet file will be overwritten.+ The undocumented and unnecessary hot key F12 has been removed.

+ New menu for regex-construction.
+ New menu with POD commands.
+ A list of all installed Perl modules can be built and read in.
The documentation for a module can be opened from this list.
+ Extension to ctags + taglist shows POD table of content and enables navigation.
+ Append aligned comments to all lines of a marked block.
+ The root menu can be removed.
+ Documentation improved.
+ Bug fix (template file handling).
+ Install script improved.

+ Block comments are now read as templates or skeletons from files: frame Comment, function description, file header+ These templates can contain tags like |FILENAME|, |AUTHOR| etc. which are replaced after reading.+ indentation: multiline inserts and code snippets will be indented after insertion.+ Most menu entries are now also active in normal mode.+ Reading the templates is done in one function which can be called in an autocmd.+ Code cleanup: register z no longer used. Most function calls are silent now.